The Second Realm
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Cypherpynkd episodes
Cypherpunkd Episode 001: "Loom for Geeks" Part 1 - Introduction - Patrick Chkoreff
The simplest possible web-based mechanism for creating and transferring types of assets and amounts of them.
To own an asset means to be the only one who knows where it is (the information required to access it)
Loom involved a two-dimensional array of numbers like a spreadsheet where the rows are asset types and the columns are like "accounts" or "vaults", the content of the cells being the number of units of the asset type stored in the vaults.
The columns are hash keys (with assigned friendly names) some being personal accounts that people have created for themselves, others are assigned as shared context between issuers and recipients for payments. (the analogy is of picking a random drop zone for the asset so someone can give it to another person without meeting or coinciding in time).
All kind of content can be stored like this - the only protection is that the hash names are not know - this of course is no less secure than having a password to login, in fact passwords are far shorter than hash keys.
Cypherpunkd Episode 002: "Liberty Villages" - Non-State Communities
Interview with Clay Douglass the founder of Liberty Villages. They talk about many concepts to do with independence including memory-stick based transport layer (sneakernet) and connecting villages together into larger networks.
